Obama heads back to divided government
Election 2012
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One day after his surprisingly comfortable re-election, a triumphant President Barack Obama headed back to the White House and divided government on Wednesday with little time left for a compromise with Republicans to avert spending cuts and tax increases that threaten a new recession.
The president also is looking ahead to top-level personnel changes in a second term, involving three powerful Cabinet portfolios at a minimum.
Republicans headed into a season of potentially painful reflection after retaining control of the House but losing the presidency and falling deeper into the Senate minority. One major topic: the changing face of America.
“We’ve got to deal with the issue of immigration through good policy. What is the right policy if we want economic growth in America as it relates to immigration?” said former Republican Party Chairman Haley Barbour. Obama drew support from about 70 percent of all Hispanics, far outpacing Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
There was little time to celebrate for the winners, with a postelection session of Congress scheduled to convene next Tuesday. By common agreement, the main order of business is the search for a compromise to keep the economy from falling off a so-called “fiscal cliff.”
The White House said Obama had made postelection phone calls to congressional leaders and reiterated a commitment to bipartisan steps to “reduce our deficit in a balanced way, cut taxes for middle class families and small businesses and create jobs.”
“The president said he believed that the American people sent a message in yesterday’s election that leaders in both parties need to put aside their partisan interests and work with common purpose to put the interests of the American people and the American economy first,” the statement said.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters that any solution should include higher taxes on “the richest of the rich.” That was in keeping with Obama’s election platform, which calls for the expiration of tax cuts on income over $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for couples.
Reid said he spoke with Republican House Speaker John Boehner as well as Obama Tuesday night as the election results became known, and he declared that “of course” a compromise was possible on the overall issue.
“I’m not going to draw a line in the sand. He’s not going to draw a line in the sand, I don’t believe,” Reid said of Boehner.
The speaker set a conference call with his Republican rank and file for mid-afternoon.
He said in pre-election interviews he would not agree to raise taxes on small business owners, a formulation Republicans often use in opposing the president’s position on the issue.
Barring legislation by year’s end, taxes are on course to rise by more than $500 billion in 2013, and spending is to be cut by an additional $130 billion or so, totals that would increase over a decade. The blend is designed to rein in the federal debt, but officials in both parties warn it poses a grave threat to an economic recovery that has been halting at best.
Obama and congressional leaders in both parties say they want an alternative, but serious compromise talks were non-existent during the fierce campaign season.
That ended Tuesday in an election in which more than 119 million votes were cast, mostly without controversy despite dire predictions of politically charged recounts and lawsuits while the presidency hung in the balance.
Obama won the popular vote narrowly, the electoral vote comfortably, and the battleground states where the campaign was principally waged in a landslide.
The president carried seven of the nine states where he, Romney and their allies spent nearly $1 billion on television commercials, winning Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Colorado and Virginia.
The Republican challenger won North Carolina, and Florida remained too close to call
Obama also turned back late moves by Republicans in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota.
Hispanics account for a larger share of the population than the national average in Nevada and Colorado, two of the closely contested battleground states. The president’s outsized majority among Hispanics — in the range of 70 percent according to Election Day interviews with voters — helped him against a challenger who called earlier in the year for self-deportation of illegal immigrants.
Other factors in crucial states:
— In Ohio, roughly 60 percent of all voters said they favored the Obama administration’s auto bailout, and the president captured nearly three quarters of their votes, according to the survey, conducted for The Associated Press and a group of television networks. He stressed the rescue operation throughout the campaign. Romney opposed it, and in late campaign commercials suggested it had contributed to the loss of U.S. jobs overseas.
— In Virginia, the black vote was roughly half again as big in percentage terms as nationally, also an aid to Obama.
Changes are in store for the victorious administration. The election past, three members of Obama’s Cabinet have announced plans to leave their posts: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Other changes would not be unusual in the second administration of any president.
As for Congress, Democrats improbably gained seats in re-establishing their Senate majority. Their final margin hinged on a decision by independent Sen.-elect Angus King of Vermont, who has not yet said which party he will affiliate with.
The election was the second in a row in which Republicans lost potentially winnable races after nominating candidates who articulated views that voters evidently judged as too extreme. Two years ago, tea party-backed insurgents were defeated in Nevada, Colorado and Delaware. This year, senior Republicans watched in disbelief as Rep. Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana flamed out after making incendiary comments about rape.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said his party has “a period of reflection and recalibration ahead.” In a statement issued before the extent of GOP losses was known, he added, “While some will want to blame one wing of the party over the other, the reality is candidates from all corners of our GOP lost tonight.”
There were 13 House races that remained too close to call, leaving the final size of the Republicans’ majority in doubt. They won at least 232 seats and led for two more, a trend that would translate to a net loss of 8 from the current lineup.
In defeat, Democrats pointed to races where they turned tea party-backed conservatives out of power as evidence they had stemmed a tide.
Associated Press writers Julie Pace in Chicago and Donna Cassata, Larry Margasak and Andrew Taylor in Washington contributed to this story.
Nov 9, 2012 at 3:21 p.m.
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Maine with the MGD64 Most Irrelevant Cut and Paste of the day. Wisconsin's PRS is not like California's.
Nov 9, 2012 at 2:20 p.m.
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I'm thinking wislady is getting the latest facts from Trump as we speak.....
Nov 9, 2012 at 1:40 p.m.
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Governor praises pension reform bill by T. Herdt, Aug. 31, 2012
Sacramento - On overwhelming bipartisan votes, lawmakers on Friday sent to Gov. Jerry Brown a comprehensive reform of public pensions in California that is designed to end abuses such as spiking, prevent high-wage earners from accumulating $100,000 pensions and save state and local governments about $50 billion over the next 30 years. "Pensions were not made to be a way to make people wealthy, but to ensure security at retirement age," said Sen. Gloria Negrette McLeod, D-Chino. The bill, AB 340, caps the amount of compensation subject to pension calculations at $110,000, increases retirement ages, and lowers pension formulas for state and local government workers hired after Jan. 1. It also requires all public workers, new and current, to pay at least half the annual contributions that are made into their pension funds. It also seeks to end so-called pension "spiking" by requiring that pensions be calculated on the average compensation earned during an employee's final three years and prohibiting the use of cashed-in vacation time, bonuses and other non-recurring pay in calculating pension benefits.
The bill, which Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign, also bars the practice known as "double-dipping," by requiring that retired government employees stay off the payroll for at least six months before being allowed to come back as part-time workers. Brown praised the Legislature's action, calling the bill "the biggest rollback of public pensions in California history. This sweeping pension reform package will save tens of billions of taxpayer dollars and make the system more sustainable for the long term." An analysis by the California Public Employees Retirement System estimates the changes will save state and local governments from $42 billion to $55 billion over the next three decades. Most of the savings would come when those hired beginning next year start to retire, but more immediate savings will be realized as local governments negotiate higher employee contributions to their pensions. The bill says the contributions must be split 50-50 between employers and employees by 2015. If that level isn't reached through collective bargaining by then, the bill would give local governments the ability to achieve that level by declaring a bargaining impasse. Nearly all state government workers already pay half.
Nov 9, 2012 at 10:09 a.m.
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Wislady, you still can come out and save face and admit that you had a legitimate belief that this story was true. You got it from another blog or post or email,and you took the bait and believed it was real. Then it turns out its on a satire and you make claims that the purpose of the article is to raise a bigger issue...than post it in that kind of context. SO you either thought it was a real story and you were fooled or you knew it was satire and posted it anyways hoping taht a few people would read it and be out raged.
Nov 9, 2012 at 10:03 a.m.
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I think you need to look up the definition of satire. I'm not here to attack you, I just want you to admit you read that site and though the information was real. you didn't know it was satire. You saw it on another site and posted it here because you were outraged, without looking into the facts at all. You were duped. Instead of trying to come back and attack me, I am just pointing out that you posted a fake news story with the belief that it was real. When the David Koch call came in I was very skeptical that it was really walker on the phone. I did research and found proof taht it was walker in the recording.
Nov 9, 2012 at 9:25 a.m.
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We need a safety valve against socialism.
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:45 p.m.
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poobah:
2010 saw a big GOP sweep in congress. The electorate did not just magically change in 2 years. The GOP simply elected a HORRIBLE candidate for president. I pointed that out all during the GOP primaries. Keep in mind all Romney had to beat was a pizza delivery guy, the wicked witch of the west (or was it east?), the taxes 6 gun shooting cowboy, and a few other clowns. The two sensible ones (Huntsman and Paul) were immediately cast aside by the party, and all it served to do was alienate many Republican voters. This was about as bad of candidate since well, Mccain, haha. The same stuff was said about the dems after 2004 when John Kerry lost to a very weak Bush (how the party had to drastically change, ext), and I said the same thing then. They were not done, they just elected a horrible candidate in the primaries. In 2006 the dems just took the congress in a total landslide.
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In any event, I won't wager any political stuff until that all heats up in a couple years. One can always make HUGE scores on politics, as the stuff is so over hyped, and people don't know how to interpret data (Like...errrr, faux news). Precious metals are indeed a GREAT place to be right now. The fiscal cliff thing will almost certainly end with some bogus compromise, where both sides make minor concessions on taxes, and spending cuts, and they of course then increase the debt ceiling again...Fed will buy that debt (more monetary creationism), and gold and commodities will take off as the $$ gets devalued further. Metals are a great long term play with the in the a state of monetary creationism, which is a course that is pretty much set into stone now.
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:03 p.m.
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kiowamohican, enjoyed your comment and will more than likely be on the opposite side of you in 2014 regarding the probability of the Republicans taking a huge majority in the house and senate in 2014. Until then, better convert some of that cash you won into precious metals. Congratulations.
Nov 8, 2012 at 10:36 p.m.
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poobah:
I disagree with you comments about the Republican party. I am no ideologue for the GOP (voted Gary Johnson), but can say with almost 100% certainty that the Republicans will take a HUGE majority in the house, and win back the senate in 2014. These things are very cyclical to begin with. Historically the Presidents party almost always looses congressional seats in mass the next election. However; this will be WAY more exemplified with the awful economy we will head into. This whole economy is nothing more then a fed created monetary illusion. The economy has done NOTHING the last decade if not for the TRILLIONS of fed stimulus. Unless this fiscal cliff crisis ends with kicking the can down the road a few more years, and allows the fed to create a few trillion more $$'s of bogus liquidity, the economy is heading south BIG TIME. I would make the very safe prediction of calling a big GOP take over of congress in 2014. Obama winning really isn't as great as the dems may think. If this thing truly melts down in the next 4 years(and it very well may) he will attain FULL blame, even though it was the combination of many Presidents prior to him. Of course as all the blame will fall on him, people will idiotically elect Republicans who's solution is just as much of a disaster. The game will continue forever until people truly figure out that both parties have lied, mislead, and looked out only for them-self, and corporate interests.
Nov 8, 2012 at 10:19 p.m.
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wislady, your logic can be applied to every website in existence. Even those sites owned by entities that are in the business of providing cyber security have been hacked and edited.
Wikipedia is a great source of information for those who are willing to read beyond the first sentence and judiciously utilize the multiple citations that most Wikipedia pages contain. In fact, if you aren't going to trust your judgement in choosing citations on a website, be it Wikipedia or the CIA, then you can't really trust any website at all, can you?
Nov 8, 2012 at 9:40 p.m.
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Yet some continue to use that as their source for "proof".
Perfect example of creative editing...Mia Love, during this last campaign.
http://www.examiner.com/article/mia-love...
Nov 8, 2012 at 9:33 p.m.
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concernwi
If it takes satire to draw attention to a real problem, so be it. No matter what is written, if it isn't something you agree with, you label it a lie anyway. The writer is cleverly addressing people like you. Why do you suppose the Onion is so successful, or Bill Maher, or Leno, or Letterman? It is because the left can not deal with reality, and everything is a joke (even Benghazi).
Why don't you do some research and see how many of the states did NOT meet the deadlines. Wisconsin is notorious for missing the deadline, even after the lawsuit of 2010, they had another lawsuit filed this year by the Romney campaign.
New Orleans isn't counting the military absentee ballots until Tuesday. Not many military votes there, but a large project on referendum is holding only a 9 vote difference. In this case, the military votes really will make a difference.
What happened in Ohio?
Michigan also had a lawsuit, and numerous other states fail to follow the Federal Law.
To most of the left, the military ballots are of no concern. This is the party who thinks they can rewrite history and turn A. Lincoln into a "Progressive".
The democratic party should change their name to the Statist Party.
Nov 8, 2012 at 5:14 p.m.
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"Karl Rove told Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Thursday that President Obama won re-election "by suppressing the vote" with negative campaign ads that "turned off" potential voters, citing a victory that carried a smaller percentage of the popular vote compared to that of the 2008 presidential race." [ http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/en... ]
Poor old Karl. He has to blame someone besides himself. He was, after all, the architect of the style of campaign that both Obama and Romney ran. Karl sure has a lot of explaining to do to his billionaire buddies [ http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/en... ] about how he wasted $400 million of their money.
The Republican party is now fractured -- those who represent the more reasonable pre-Reagan Republican party of old and those who applauded as the party was overtaken by social, so called Christian, conservatives during the Bush years. The Republican party of angry old white persons who fear becoming the minority really had its best, and probably last, chance to win the presidency this year. The phenomena of states that were once solid Republican states and are now swing states will continue to spread. With changing demographics that the Republican party either denies or refuses to embrace, the day is soon approaching, within a few presidential election cycles, that states like Arizona and Texas will be swing states and shortly afterwards dominated by Democrats.
Nov 8, 2012 at 5:13 p.m.
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schnibble; Good thing I'm not a Republican :)
I do think you missed the point of my post which was not about the Republican party.
Nov 8, 2012 at 3:20 p.m.
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I didn't expect her to return to admit that she was tricked or fooled. It takes a big person to do that.
Nov 8, 2012 at 2:47 p.m.
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The Democrats now face a political cliff.
If 4 years from now the economy is the same as now or only a little better the Republicans could run Howdy Doody (or Newt Gangrich, same difference) and win.
The Democrats challenge is for the moderates in the party to prevail over the far left that now controls the party. If the moderates cannot pull President Obama toward the center their will be no improvement to the economy and the Democrats will be out in the wilderness in 2016.
Reaching across the aisle will have to mean real compromise, not the present version of my way or the highway.
Nov 8, 2012 at 2:36 p.m.
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No reply from wislady for awhile - she must be scrambling to look up what "satire" means.
Nov 8, 2012 at 2:35 p.m.
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Your payroll taxes are going up Jan 1 anyway when the SS tax goes from 4.2% back to 6.2%. Neither BO nor MR said they wouldn't let that expire or discussed this during the campaign.
Nov 8, 2012 at 2:34 p.m.
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wislady, you mention my name but your question isn't a logical response to my comment.
Nov 8, 2012 at 2:22 p.m.
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Nov 8, 2012 at 7:33 a.m.
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Military Absentee Ballots Delivered One Day Late, Would Have Swung Election For Romney
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/11/milita...
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I didn't know you had a sense of humor Wislady. Lol
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:45 a.m.
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ECartman- Yep, they just keep on dancin' like they have for decades.....downhill downhill downhill.....
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:40 a.m.
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Republicans will be forced to agree to increase taxes that the Dems have been pushing to keep America from flipping over financially. I predict in future political races the democrats will say " It was the Republicans that raised the taxes!" Very slippery...
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:39 a.m.
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Republicans and Democrats....util we can get rid of them from the top down the law-abiding working class will continue to non-existence.
An 8-time felon was just elected in Michigan.......See where it's headed?
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:10 a.m.
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If the GOP gives and inch -- they will be handily voted out and new GOPers will be asked to cut spending.... No new, no increased taxes. Cuts is what we need. Cuts in freebies, cuts in handouts, cuts in taxes.
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:01 a.m.
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wislady: Lincoln was considered a liberal republican for abolishing slavery,opposing the mexican-american war and his free thinking. He also was considered an atheist for he never attached himself to any christian beliefs. I don't consider the movie Lincoln a full fact based history of him. I hope you really don't rely on movies to get facts on anything, remember they are just movies.
Nov 8, 2012 at 10:27 a.m.
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Removed for site???!!!
Is it the toe reference you didn't like or the fact that your Obama Govenment is handing newborns a debt of $60,129.00?
Nov 8, 2012 at 10:25 a.m.
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From Enterprise Zones To Economic Dead Zones
New EPA regulations would put an outright ban on any new businesses across huge chunks of the United States. Others would shut down the coal industry, once and for all, throwing tens of thousands of workers into long-term unemployment.
These regulations will begin rolling out this month. That’s another reason why smart businesses are stashing their cash. They have no idea what the regulations will mean to them.
Of course Obama had to wait until AFTER the election to hurt more businesses.
Nov 8, 2012 at 10:22 a.m.
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The first rule of using a resource on the internet is to look up the history of the source to see who runs it, what political leaning it has, and if it's a real site or not.
Nov 8, 2012 at 10:19 a.m.
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Wislady is easily snookered, but she will believe anything that she agrees with.
Nov 8, 2012 at 10:08 a.m.
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Wislady, your link is very alarming. All of those votes not counted? As a voter I am outraged....oh wait, the duffleblog is a satire site, not real news. And not satire in the way that The Daily Show or Fox News are satire, but in an onion sense. If you look at the facts objectively, it would be impossible for this to be true. Romney would have had to gain 107,000 in Ohio, 205205 in Wisconsin, 110041 in Virginia just to tie it up at 269 each. That would be over 400,000 votes...that only were cast for Republicans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duffel_...
Nov 8, 2012 at 10:05 a.m.
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Watch a movie to get the facts?
That explains a lot.
Now I am sad.
Nov 8, 2012 at 9:48 a.m.
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RAF, operating on Pacific coast time, calling people trolls -lol.
Nov 8, 2012 at 9:08 a.m.
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What ever happens in the next year-look in the mirror. Only there will you find the truth. Some of you appear to have no heart to listen to, some of you appear to believe man/Gov. has your back.
I know who has my back, he is not man and certainly not the Government.
Will you please share honesty with each other?
Latino and libertarians carried the vote. Good luck progressives-you need it. You have now inherited a higher unemployment than when you took office in 2008. More debt. than 2008. More poor than 2008. This is your economy-now please fix it. A lower GDP than any sitting leader. Print a way, after all the future children of America pay for your mistakes. PLUS my Grandson and Granddaughter get to be on Government healthcare. Didn,t you get your paper work yesterday? Just imagine a healthcare distributed like the postal service and any Government agency to get a licence or permit. Watch Greece right now. Watch the fires, the violence. After all the fist is here already.
Nov 8, 2012 at 8:36 a.m.
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great link wislady:) Don't fret though, I found a story that says Romney isn't giving up yet!! Share this with your friends please!!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/romney-...
Nov 8, 2012 at 7:57 a.m.
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The Duffel Blog serves the men and women of the US Military with a daily dose of military humor, funny military pictures, and faux news. We take an interesting and funny look at military life. We focus on veterans, military stories, defense, politics (sometimes) and life on base — with a comedic twist. We are in no way, shape, or form, a real news outlet. Just about everything on this website is satirical in nature.
Nov 8, 2012 at 7:53 a.m.
Nov 8, 2012 at 7:47 a.m.
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The left will only cry disenfranchise to surpress the vote on the right. Now we don't know how the Military personal would have voted in the hundreds of thousand of mysteriously hiden ballots, we just know that 66% polled for Romney.
Iran wins, Isreal loses. America in trouble
Nov 8, 2012 at 7:33 a.m.
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Military Absentee Ballots Delivered One Day Late, Would Have Swung Election For Romney
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/11/milita...
Nov 8, 2012 at 7:05 a.m.
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NVgrf
Your name calling continues...suggest you curb your use of the favorite liberal terminology used for conservatives.
Perhaps you could go watch the movie "Lincoln" and get your facts straight. Lincoln was a republican, and he was not considered a "liberal".
Nov 8, 2012 at 7:02 a.m.
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Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, assasinated by a democrat. You got some stuff to learn NVgrf.
Nov 8, 2012 at 6:47 a.m.
Nov 8, 2012 at 1:43 a.m.
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"Give 'em hell, Mr. President!"
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That was what they told Harry S Truman. And he replied "All i did was TELL THEM THE TRUTH, and they thought it was hell".
Of course Obama (and all the rest) are nothing but liars, and there is no more truth, or integrity, in politicians any more. If they truly told you the truth of this countries economy and economic situation it would be summed up in three very simply words.
WE ARE SCREWED!!
Nov 8, 2012 at 12:23 a.m.
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"Nvgrf.....Are you seriously that clueless??"
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Yes he/she is.
Nov 8, 2012 at 12:22 a.m.
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"I am sort of curious what sort of income tax you pay", says a poster claiming to be a person they are not....typical faux lefty.
Nov 7, 2012 at 11:01 p.m.
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wislady, I am sort of curious what sort of income tax you pay to go around labeling people as not earning anything. You sure don't seem to work much, unless your getting a per diem for internet babbling.
Not that it matters much, but it wouldn't shock me if I pay higher taxes than you. Lol, that would mean YOU are mooching off ME.
THe 1040 says our FIT paid is well above poverty level annual income for a family of 5. (And no, I'm not counting my sizeable charitable donations as income tax paid as ole slick Mitt.
A boatload of tax without even counting FICA/MED/SIT and sales & property taxes etal. But I never would want to trade places with that poverty level family, because I have been there, (and worked much harder then).
Nov 7, 2012 at 10:43 p.m.
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A trillion taxpayer dollars saved by not enabling dangerous cold war era-style military spending under Romney Ryan. Russia...in the repetitive words of Patriot 916WI, were they seriously that clueless??
Thank you electorate!
Nov 7, 2012 at 10:04 p.m.
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Only if you don't agree with the right to vote.
Nov 7, 2012 at 9:55 p.m.
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Is something wrong with this?
People who don't OWN anything & don't EARN anything,( while they live in their parents basement) saying how great it is Obama was re-elected.
Nov 7, 2012 at 9:42 p.m.
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Nvgrf.....Are you seriously that clueless?? I realize that my thoughts are wasted on some who labeled Medicare as a example of an efficient and well run government program, but I'll give it a shot anyway.....Obama can't "give 'em hell" without getting his legislation effectively shut down. That's what happens when you have something called a divided government. Walker, on the other hand, could choose to "give 'em hell" if he so desired.....:)
Nov 7, 2012 at 9:42 p.m.
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Nvgrf.....Are you seriously that clueless?? I realize that my thoughts are wasted on some who labeled Medicare as a example of an efficient and well run government program, but I'll give it a shot anyway.....Obama can't "give 'em hell" without getting his legislation effectively shut down. That's what happens when you have something called a divided government. Walker, on the other hand, could choose to "give 'em hell" if he so desired.....:)
Nov 7, 2012 at 9:33 p.m.
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gazettefan
How about all the drone strikes Obama has ordered? Many innocent people killed, but because it isn't called "war", it makes it less offensive?
Who ordered the drone strike this morning?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07...
Nov 7, 2012 at 9:20 p.m.
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Be glad we settle these things without going to war with each other.
Nov 7, 2012 at 9:08 p.m.
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How many are uncounted, blisslady? I didn't see it in the article.
Nov 7, 2012 at 8:53 p.m.
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illdrinktothat
At least someone is sitting in the empty chair now (your cartoon).
Does anyone take issue with the uncounted military votes?
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/...
Nov 7, 2012 at 8:42 p.m.
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Fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice, shame on me.
Nov 7, 2012 at 8:32 p.m.
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http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/
Nov 7, 2012 at 8:21 p.m.
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It is time for Obama to do what he said he would do, work together (or is that another lie)?
Amazingly, he lost his "dialect" that was so obvious as he campaigned in specific areas of the country.
Nov 7, 2012 at 7:19 p.m.
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If Romney believed he could "reach across the aisle" then why haven't GOP congressional members met Obama when he reached? Now that he has won a second term, maybe they will behave differently.
Nov 7, 2012 at 6:46 p.m.
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Give 'em hell, Mr. President!
Nov 7, 2012 at 4:33 p.m.
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Divided govt isn't such a bad thing. Unless you're a billionaire coalition wanting to own it. Then you need the whole enchilada.
Right Scotty?
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